In the Aftermath of the Earthquake in Syria: A Discussion with Muzna Duried and Omar Alshogre
CCAS is hosting an event with Omar Alshogre, a human rights advocate and former detainee in Syria, and Muzna Duried, a Senior Program Development Officer at The White Helmets. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, CCAS/SFS.
Omar Alshogre is a Syrian public speaker and a human rights advocate. Omar was arrested and imprisoned for 3 years for participating in rallies and demonstrations against the Syrian regime. Omar currently engages in raising awareness of the situation in Syria. Omar leads the Syrian Emergency Task Force’s efforts to advocate for the liberation of detainees as the Director of Detainees Affairs. Omar is also the spokesperson for Atrocities Tracker, an independent human rights project that monitors and documents human rights violations. Omar has addressed the US House and Senate , was feared by NYT, Washington Post, and he gave lectures at Harvard, Brown, Princeton, and other American universities, Georgetown too, of course. He is a key witness to multiple national prosecution efforts to hold the Assad regime accountable for War Crimes and will be playing an important role alongside Caesar as a key witness for future US national prosecution efforts of the Assad regime where American citizens have been executed and others remain detained by the regime.
Muzna Dureid works as a Senior Program Development Officer at The White Helmets (the winner of an alternative Nobel Peace Prize in 2016).
Muzna is a former refugee, an advocate for diaspora women’s refugee political participation, and a co-founder of the Syrian women’s political movement to engage Syrian women in politics and peace talks and shape Syria’s future. In Canada, she is a co-founder of Refugee Advisor Network-Canada, where she works to advance the meaningful participation of refugees in shaping international policies.
She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has been involved in multiple initiatives and networks focusing on child and forced marriage issues among Syrian refugees. This includes founding “Women Refugees, not Captives,” aiming to end forced and child marriages among Syrian refugee women and girls.
She is a co-recipient of Canada’s first-ever research award on Women, Peace, and security. The recipient of the Canadian Excellence in Global Women’s and Children’s Health Award and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers’ annual award for outstanding advocacy on behalf of the human rights of refugees She is an alumna of the Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship at Edinburgh University and a laureate of Femmes d’Avenir en Méditerranée at Sciences Po University.